7 month old night time sleeping getting worse and want to remove dummy

[Lauriejane]

Hi everyone, firstly I'm not familiar with all the abbreviation and acronyms everyone uses on here, so long hand it is.

My baby boy is 7 months old, in his own room and goes to sleep very easily by being left (most of the time). He has a dummy to go to sleep which hes had from about 3 months. The dummy usually falls out when he's asleep. Recently he's been waking more and more in the night. The past week or so he's been crawling backwards and I usually find him awake, crying, stuck as he's backed into a corner of his cot.

He usually has a feed at about 4am, but not actually sure he needs this. He's breastfeed.

I am planning to remove the dummy, perhaps do controlled crying and stop the feed in one go. Has anyone else tried this? Any advice, tips? I'm prepared to be strong and stay calm!
Thanks

Sounds as if it's the crawling practice rather than the dummy that's the problem? You could teach him to replug his own dummy rather than take it away. As far as the feed goes, does he take a proper feed or is he just comfort sucking do you think? If you're not sure it might be easier on him to reduce that feed gradually. You could delay giving it in increments of 15 minutes until it becomes a morning feed and/or reduce the time he's on for. Or if you ever give a bottle you could reduce the amount and/or dilute it gradually. And at the same time increase his daytime calories to make up for it. Might be easier on him to do that first then ccing. He doesn't need feeding at this age but he's used to it so he will feel hungry at that time and at 4am hes had quite a bit of sleep so the combination of not being very tired anymore and feeling hungry/thirsty could make ccing at that hour pretty grim. Especially without a dummy to help calm him back down.

I suspect that he wakes and doesn't have his dummy and then he really wakes up properly and that's when he starts moving around. That's why I thought if I could get him to self settle without the dummy, he might not get to the point when he's really awake.
Maybe slowly changing his feed is a good idea.... I just don't know. Everything is a guessing game with babies!

My dd has gone from sleeping thru to waking 3 ish times a night with this crawling backwards malarky. Annoying as it is i just shush/feed her back to sleep..it will pass. She is also 7 months. Same thing.happened when she learnt to roll at 5 months. Personally i done see how leaving to cry can help. Just resettle him.the quickest way you can then get back to bed

Dummy removed. No crying, just a yawn and then fell asleep! Surely it can't be that easy. We're prepared for fun and games in the night. Decided against leaving him to cry, but to calm and settle him. Fingers crossed.